Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
"Could it be me that's wrong? No, no it's everyone else who is wrong."
Language is an ever evolving thing, so dictionaries are temporary by their very definition. It's also why you see hardcopy dictionaries and encyclopedias keep getting new releases instead of just the old ones being reprinted - those things change and evolve.

And as someone whose native tongue is gendered to an extreme, yes, that sort of thing is ridiculous. Especially since languages tend to break their own rules more often than not when dealing with gendered words. "Oh if it ends in this string of letters, it's female, other than this collection of words, that are male". To this day I remember a test I took where I got one of those nonsense questions wrong but even the teacher missed it and I got full marks.

The only good thing that comes out of it is watching the mortified looks on people's faces when I use the 'wrong' gendered words for myself. Some people are so fragile.